A power supply control apparatus, where the power supply control apparatus is configured to control power supply to a cabinet in a data center is presented, where the power supply control apparatus includes a communications module configured to receive an instruction of a network management center, and a controllable switch configured to adjust a capacity of the controllable switch according to the instruction to perform power-on/power-off control on the cabinet. In various embodiments, a power supply control apparatus may receive an instruction of a network management center, and can adjust a capacity of a controllable switch according to the instruction, which enhances power distribution flexibility, and therefore, a workload of changing a switch and a power cable can be reduced, and an engineering related risk can be avoided.

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a plurality of information handling resources and a controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of information handling resources. The controller may be configured to monitor for the presence of a thermal escape event of the information handling system. The controller may also be configured to, responsive to detecting the presence of the thermal escape event, determine one or more affected information handling resources of the plurality of information handling resources, wherein the one or more affected information handling resources comprise information handling resources thermally affected by the thermal escape event. The controller may further be configured to determine for each of the one or more affected information handling resources a respective thermal excursion timeout period.

A system for monitoring, controlling and optimizing power usage and cooling utilization within a data center infrastructure. The system may make use of a subsystem which is adapted to obtain real time information on both facility devices and information technology (IT) devices. The subsystem may be used to evaluate the real time information to provide an alert and diagnostic information with respect to at least one of the facility devices or at least one of the IT devices. The subsystem may also make use of a mechanism that provides real time control over at least one of the facility devices or at least one of the IT devices to optimize at least one of cooling utilization, power usage or performance of at least one of the facility devices or at least one of the IT devices.